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- Dec 25, 2012
Off topic, some parts of Javier's recent interview:
Q: Your biggest rival, Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, scored 322.40 points (at the 2015 NHK Trophy) and you 302.77 (at the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships). Is that an insurmountable gap?
A: Every competition is different. It's true that when he got that score it was because he did something special and the other skaters perhaps had more mediocre routines, including myself, because I was in that competition (the NHK Trophy in Nagano, Japan, in November). One of my programs didn't go well. Each competition is different, and each skater skates in a different way. You never know what can happen. It's true that right now we have the two best scores in the world and he still has more points and the world record. But that doesn't mean that he'll do that forever. In the nationals in Japan, he didn't do such a good program. He made a lot of mistakes. The key is to work, be patient and mistakes can happen at any time because we're human.
(And the interviewer does not know the difference between NHK and GPF.)
Q: Can you be friends with your biggest rival? Do you go out to lunch or dinner, or is everything limited to what happens inside the rink?
A: We don't usually eat together or hang out. We're very different people. His lifestyle is different from mine, since I'm European. That doesn't mean we don't chat when we're in the rink. We talk. We laugh. We have a good time. With the coach, it's the same.
It's good that Fernandez is feeling more competitive these days and is going to put up his best fight to keep the World Title. Let's see what happens!







